Documents don’t dispel JFK conspiracy theories
IN THE age of post- truth, it is disappointing that in the release of almost 3000 documents to add to the 30,000 already in the public domain there is nothing to confirm our favourite JKF conspiracy theories.
There is no new Roswell memo to indicate President Kennedy had acknowledged extraterrestrial data and, hence, his assassination. Not even the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens had the audacity to propose that theory.
Nor is there evidence for President Trump’s theory for the involvement of Rafael Cruz ( father of former presidential candidate Ted Cruz). Cruz was photographed eating with Lee Harvey Oswald a few days before the assassination.
There is nothing in the files about the deathbed confessions of the CIA agent who was disguised as a tramp near the Texas School Book Depository, and later jailed for his part in Watergate.
There is no lone gunman evidence of the Warren Commission, only CIA surveillance records of Oswald prior to the fatal day in Dallas. The ’ 80s TV program Quantum Leap had the hero in Oswald’s body seconds before he fired the shots.
The late US author Norman Mailer wrote about two lone gunmen.
The conspiracy theorists had any number of smoking guns: the white smoke from the grassy knoll, the smell of gunpowder from the rifle- carrying secret service agent who was believed to have accidentally shot the President in the car in front, the doctored photo of Oswald’s favourite rifle, the altered description of the gun he was founded with.
The marksmanship record of the exmarine hardly qualified him as a reliable assassin, with or without a magic bullet.
No mention is made of the decoy hearse and nip and tuck surgery designed to conceal the number and direction of the President’s bullet wounds.
The few hundred documents delayed by FBI and CIA concerns are now also to be released, only the names of the living will be suppressed. The so- called “good stuff”, however, is unlikely to justify our biased view of the truth. WILLIAM ROSS,
Cranbrook.