The press could not contain the firestorm that erupted over the Zapruder film. Garrison had to take Henry Luce of Time Life to the Supreme Court and, surprisingly, obtained the tape. A jury of American citizens would see only what the government had seen and had lied to the world about.
After that, there was a great deal of depression among the news media. Jim Garrison had pierced the bubble that the mainstream news media had been encased in.
But the CIA had one last ace up their sleeve. The CIA planted a witness, Charles Spiesel. He took the stand, claiming he met Shaw and Oswald. He recounted how, when his daughter returned from a trip, he pulled her aside and took her fingerprints to confirm she was real and not a government clone. This discredited Jim Garrison’s case, and the conspiracy charge was dismissed by the jury.
But what about the perjury charge? Well, the local federal court issued an order that they just could not prosecute him. Why? No idea. It was probably illegal.
Of course, in response to all of this, the press headlined for Garrison’s resignation. Having spent so much time and money defending himself against the earlier bribery charges and the income tax evasion he was supposed to have reported on that bribe, both of which he won, he lost his third election for DA to one of Shaw’s lawyers.
He also lost his wife, who divorced him.
What now?
After Garrison’s downfall, there were more sketchy events of note. The Los Angeles Free Press was purchased by Hustler Magazine owner Larry Flynt. The first thing he did was challenge America’s media for not being a free press. He offered a one million dollar reward for anyone who had information on John Kennedy’s assassination. A few weeks later, he was shot in the back, leaving him paralyzed for life.
This was also around the time when Senator Frank Church’s hearings into the CIA revealed that hundreds of their assets were writing the news during the Vietnam War. The news during that time was, quite literally, government propaganda. And Church proved it.
How many of these wars America has been part of have been fueled by CIA propaganda?
He also discovered that the Pentagon destroyed their entire Kennedy Assassination file. Why? Nobody knows.
Ultimately, the House Select Committee on Assassinations exposed a multitude of inconsistencies with the Warren Commission report that should have been obvious to the Warren Commission at the time. However, it was deemed too damaging for the public to see, and nearly half a million records were to stay sealed until 2029.
In 1975, Geraldo Rivera, on his late-night show on ABC, showed America the Zapruder film for the first time to the public. Finally, now that the public had seen such damning evidence, hundreds of thousands demanded that Congress conduct a real investigation.
Cornered by these demands, Congress essentially had no choice.
But the CIA is not so easily cornered.
“The House Select Committee on Assassinations” was established within a year. Their purpose was to investigate the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
Unknown today, because it was never reported by the media, the first head of the committee was a lawyer from Philadelphia, Richard Sprague. He not only announced that he would definitively solve the murders, but he also informed his staff that they would not hire any CIA or FBI agents to investigate. That they would be the first to be investigated.
The CIA could not allow this, of course. So, they neutralized him, just as they had done to Jim Garrison. As soon as he issued subpoenas for information from the CIA, the chairman of the committee fired him. He was immediately replaced by Robert Blakey, who then turned the entire proceedings over to the agencies.
Under Blakey, important subpoenaed witnesses never appeared. Sam Giancana was shot in the back of the head days before he was due to testify. John Roselli, a major player in the plot to kill Castro, months later was found dismembered in a barrel in the ocean. George de Mohrenschildt, the CIA’s designated best friend of Oswald’s, was found in his house with his head blown off prior to his interview. A “suicide,” of course.
Blakey was unfazed by all these sudden deaths of key witnesses, as was the press. The most telling incident of this new government deception was an exchange between one of the committee’s most respected investigators, Tannenbaum, and David Atlee Phillips, Chief of the CIA’s Western Hemisphere Division. David was identified, under oath, as Maurice Bishop, seen often with Lee Harvey Oswald.
But for some reason, right in the middle of the under-oath subpoenaed interview, Phillips just got up and left. Tannenbaum demanded that the Justice Department arrest him for contempt of Congress, but they refused.
Mark Lane, along with others, still fought to achieve some sort of result from the committee. Interestingly enough, the only results that came at the close of the committee were by accident.
It was discovered that the dictabelt of one of the motorcycle officers in Dallas on the day of the shooting had inadvertently recorded four or more shots. The committee, cornered by this evidence, had no choice but to conclude that there was a conspiracy to commit both murders. Then it was turned over to the Justice Department, where it remains open but is considered a cold case.
Blakey went on to write a book, thanking the CIA and blaming the Mafia.
The conclusions of the committee had so little coverage that most people in the United States are not even aware that, officially, by Congress, it was determined that there was a conspiracy.
So much of the press strongly supported the official government narrative. They were CIA assets now.
Fun fact: The House Select Committee uncovered 78 mysterious deaths related to the case. 78, and the media said nothing.
The brutal eliminations began immediately. Days after Ferrie’s “suicide,” his friend Eladio del Valle had his head split open with an axe. Some murders happened even before Dallas.
In Los Angeles, 23-year-old Karyn Kupcinet called her father, Chicago columnist Irv Kupcinet, screaming, “They are going to murder the president in Dallas!” A week later, she was found strangled.
Rose Cherami was thrown out of a car carrying the gunman to Dallas. Confined to a Louisiana mental hospital, she told the doctors they were going to kill the president. Later, her battered body was found on a Texas highway.
Mary Pinchot Meyer had a long-lasting affair with President Kennedy, which she documented in her diary. She was married to CIA officer Cord Meyer. Former CIA Intelligence Officer E. Howard Hunt, on his deathbed, said Meyer was a major player in the assassination. Her diary disappeared immediately after her unsolved murder in 1964.
Life Magazine’s military advisor, Gary Underhill, told friends the CIA killed John Kennedy. In 1964, the gunshot wound to his head was ruled another ‘suicide’. Another ‘suicide’ was William Bruce Pitzer, head of audiovisual at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, who weeks before his retirement showed an aide incomplete autopsy footage showing a gunshot wound to the president’s head from the front. Days later, he was found with a gunshot wound to the front of his head.
And many more. Literally there are 78. Look them up. It is insane.
Once in office, another sitting president, Jimmy Carter, said, “Solving President Kennedy’s murder is the only way to get America back in shape.” To do this, he nominated Ted Sorensen as the new CIA Chief. Not wanting someone who might dismantle the agency, they chose someone else.
Later, in LA, two men were arrested for attempting to assassinate Jimmy Carter. Their names were… Raymond Lee Harvey and Oswaldo Espinosa. Carter got the message and said, “I have lost control of the government.”
You know Bill O’Reilly? For years on Inside Edition, he advocated for challenging the government’s official narrative on the assassination. He pursued it on many different occasions. Then, once he moved to Fox and made his money, he made a 180-degree turn, spreading the discredited Warren Report narrative with his book “Killing Kennedy,” which aligns with the official story. I wonder why?
In 1991, America was stunned when Oliver Stone announced that he was making a film about the JFK assassination based on Jim Garrison’s book. “JFK” hit the screens with such an impact that neither the media nor Congress could ignore it. It was on the front page of every newspaper and magazine, mostly attacks.
In Oct. of 1992, Congress was forced to pass the “JFK Records Act.” They released hundreds of documents, but it was not enough. Quickly, and this is documented, the Secret Service started destroying important records. They were records of trips that President Kennedy had taken in the fall of 1963 prior to him going to Dallas. These records were what are called “threat sheets” which are records of threats to a president’s life. Seems important, right?
The Secret Service then refused to sign a document under oath stating that they had turned over all documents relating to the assassination.
Still, however, earlier this year the Biden Administration chose to keep the remaining JFK documents related to the assassination under wraps indefinitely, citing national security reasons… again.
What national security secrets could possibly be at risk? What are they hiding?
“In light of the recommendation for continued postponement of public release of information in the records identified in section 2(b) of this memorandum under the statutory standard, I hereby certify, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 5(g)(2)(D) of the Act, that continued postponement of public disclosure of that information is necessary to protect against identifiable harms to military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, and the conduct of foreign relations that are of such gravity that they outweigh the public interest in disclosure.”
John Kennedy’s nephew, Robert J. Kennedy, Jr, reacted to the administration’s decision:
“The White House announcement is unlawful. In 1992 the JFK Records Act was passed unanimously by Congress with the promise that all assassination-related records would be released no later than October 2017. This promise has been broken once again with this midnight announcement. The assassination was 60 years ago.”
This definitely seems to be an attempt to protect the CIA.
Word, after all this time, is FINALLY getting around that the CIA is bad news, and people are finally waking up. Why? Because the CIA has committed more than just crimes against humanity. We are finding out some really crazy stuff from different sources that the CIA is/was involved in. From drug and child trafficking to non-human intelligence, coverups, even possibly as far as 9/11.
Truman regretted creating it; Eisenhower warned us about it; JFK tried to stop it, and they took him out.
What are they keeping from us? That Oswald worked for the CIA? That the CIA assassinated JFK and scapegoated Oswald? That the actual gunmen were led by George HW Bush? The body double and the real location of JFK’s corpse? Maybe we’ll never know.
They believe themselves to be the smartest people to ever walk the Earth, but surely they aren’t stupid enough not to see that this does nothing but legitimize the ‘conspiracy theorists’, right?
It is clear that the American media will continue to support whatever lie the government continues to regard in favor.
With Bill Clinton’s signing of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, turning our media over to six major corporations, he signed on to be one of the worst Presidents in history.
I could go on and on and on. But this post is long enough. You get the idea.
Now, what is the moral of the story here?
We have seen America become a country where liars run for office and truth-seekers run for their lives.
The continuing lie by the media and the government about the murder of President Kennedy is paradoxically the lie that all of their other foreign policy admitted lies are built upon.
Vietnam with their fake Gulf of Tonkin resolution. No one punished.
Bush and his cronies’ lies about “weapons of mass destruction.” No one punished.
Was Jimmy Carter right when he said to get America right we needed to solve the murder of John Kennedy? I sure think so. Do you?
The pursuit of truth is a cornerstone of liberty, and the tale of JFK’s assassination is a stark reminder of this. It’s a saga that speaks volumes about the relentless struggle between the guardians of secrets and those who advocate for transparency.
This story isn’t just about a tragedy from sixty years ago; it’s about the integrity of the free press and the government’s influence over it.
If the CIA’s involvement in manipulating the media through “Operation Mockingbird” holds true, it signifies a profound betrayal of trust and the principles of freedom. The implications of this stretch far beyond a single event, touching on wars waged under false pretenses and a culture of misinformation. Each unverified claim that passes without scrutiny is a blow to democracy, every misuse of power a challenge to the principles of freedom.
The assassination still haunts the nation, underscoring the importance of challenging falsehoods and seeking transparency. In an age where digital shadows loom large, skepticism remains our armor, and the quest for truth, our crusade.
Together, let’s question, seek, and never yield to the forces that would have us do otherwise. Our collective voice is the herald of the future we strive to create—a future where liberty is not just an ideal but a lived reality.
By Dylan Allman
