DVD ABC News Presents The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy
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first of all, i got pretty hyped when i heard that ABC was going to cover the Kennedy assassination, hoping that for once, SOMEBODY would cover the FACTS, but once again, i was proved wrong.from the start, Peter Jennings states it clear, that those who believe that a conspiracy to kill JFK are flat out WRONG! and that was it for me. althought the program did have some pretty neat computer graphics and animation, the whole programs was BIASED and WRONG. they based all of their information on once again, as the Warren Commission did, in trying to PROVE the single bullet theory. again and again, they showed graphics to prove the single bullet, and ONLY ONCE, through out the ENTIRE show, did they ever mention the head shot and why it snapped back and to the left. that one shot PROVES that the shot came from the front, and those who believe otherwise are either scared of the truth, in denial, or blind. as always, when the single bullet theory comes up, so does that pesky little gerald posner, who ironically, failed to show up on Jesse Ventura's MSNBC show about the Kennedy assassination which provided guests that believed otherwise. how people like Posner and Peter Jennings can go on living knowing that they are WRONG and lying to the people, i can't understand... you want the real NON-BIASED truth about the kennedy assassination, go and check out the History Channel's The Men Who Killed Kennedy series. you won't get the truth from ABC, just ask Michael Moore.
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| Fabulous Program .... Tells The True Tale (IMO) |  |
This ABC-TV News production originally aired on the network two days before the 40th anniversary of the assassination of America's 35th President, John F. Kennedy.Most of the pro-conspiracy advocates will fail to find any redeeming qualities in a program like this one; a program that bases its conclusions on just the FACTS in the case, and not fanciful, would-be theories of hidden gunmen, faked photographs, and forged autospy records, etc. "Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination -- Beyond Conspiracy" dives head first into the documented "facts" that we have, and presents a stylish and polished and completely acceptable documentary based on those facts (none of which has ever been proven to be inaccurate to the point of complete dismissal, including, of course, the highly-controversial "Single Bullet Theory"). With the aid of Mr. Dale K. Myers' very detailed 3-D models (which show that the SBT is far from a "Lone Nut dream"), Peter Jennings and ABC-TV paint a convincing portrait of the way things really occurred on Elm Street in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Mr. Myers' animations actually show that the Single Bullet Theory is more than just a "theory" -- it's very likely the ONLY possible explanation to account for the wounding of JFK and Texas Governor John Connally. For, without it, we would have another sort of "Magic Bullet"...a bullet that enters Mr. Connally and completely disappears without a trace! There's a lot of good-quality archival video clips utilized in this documentary, plus some new 2003 interviews with key players in the tragedy. But it's Dale Myers' 3-D mock-ups which really hit a bull's-eye here. Fascinating is the best word for them, I would say. I would have liked more of the Myers' animation shown within this compelling 2-hour program (88 minutes sans commercials), but unfortunately much of Mr. Myers' comprehensive work was not used for this ABC special. But there's still enough shown for the viewer to obviously know that Mr. Myers hasn't just slapped this 3-D computer model together overnight. He has been working on this animation project for many years. And that level of research and detail comes through in the all-too-brief demonstration of his work on this program. If you're interested in seeing further details on Dale Myers' 3-D computer models, you can check out some very interesting facts at the following web address: http://www.jfkfiles.com/jfk/html/content.htm I like the way ABC presents the case in this program, pulling no punches along the way. It's obvious to them, as it is to me, that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone killer of JFK in 1963. And, seeing as how every scrap of evidence in this murder case does indeed point in the direction of Lee Oswald having acted alone, I cannot fathom how so many individuals still seem to want to cling to the idea of conspiracy. And, no, I certainly do not believe for a single second that ALL of this evidence against Oswald could have possibly been faked, fabricated from wholecloth, or otherwise tampered with, so as to implicate an INNOCENT "patsy" named Lee H. Oswald. That notion, to me, is far more fanciful than anything the Warren Commission published in 1964. Books and videos on the subject of the JFK assassination have been decidedly one-sided, favoring one conspiracy angle or another. But, in my opinion, there are far too few pieces of material about that fateful Friday in Texas which focus attention on the idea that there was NO conspiracy, and that a lone oddball named Lee Harvey Oswald took a rifle with him to work on the morning of November 22nd, 1963, and fired three shots from a sixth-floor warehouse window, killing the President Of The United States. This ABC program fills a very important gap with regard to video material relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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| ABC's speciality: Propaganda to cover up the truth |
First, let me thank those who reacted negatively to ABC's shameless and vapid piece of propaganda regarding the Kennedy assassination. Repeating what one reviewer noted, ABC and especially Peter Jennings know little about this tragic event that changed our history. Let me first zero in on the real culprit of this alleged presentation: Gerald Posner. a total fraud as a historian and a researcher. I read most of the first edition of "Case Closed". His explanation of the untimely and mysterious deaths of witnesses connected to the events of JFK's assassination is uninformed and shallow. 10 years ago CBS and Dan Rather also used Posner's book to indisputably claim that Oswald was the lone gunman and that no conspiracy occured. Their special was an almost duplicate of the crap that ABC tried to float as conclusive. The ABC report was made even more ludicrous by using the testimony of Jack Ruby's rabbi to confirm that he "really" was disturbed by JFK's death and...oh not an organized crime figure for the Dallas/Chicage mob.I believe Oswald's brother offered him up as the lone assassin. Give me a break!! These embarassingly lame interviews coupled with Posner's unctuous and arrogant certainty, and Dale Myers bag of digitalized visual tricks to prove the single bullet theory were almost the entire show; no other point of view was offered. There was no mention of the remarkable,even if somewhat flawed series: "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" produced by Bill Kurtis and Nigel Turner (which I believe is still being updated) Finally, consider this; Gerald Posner's bookjacket bio claims he was a former Wall Street attorney. It strikes me that a person like him has much to gain by supporting the "system" rationlizing that a conspiracy just could not happen in our political system. There is a superior attitude that surrounds people like Posner, Robert Blakely,etc and other critics of those who argue that a conspiracy took place in Dallas. They infer that conspiracy advocates are the same crackpots who chase UFO sightings around the world. Based on my own reading of about 20 book and as many articles on the Kennedy assasination, there seems to be an notable preponderance of evidence that JFK's death was a consequence of a complex conspiracy and then later a truculent coverup possibly to bury not only Oswald's murky past but those who somehow used him as part of the overall plan. In 1963, the disclosure of the U.S. government's connection to organized crime figures, "black op" operations,and political assassination would have seemed incredible to a naive American public. Considering the lies, distortions and manipulation of the facts that we now witness almost daily to maintain the imperatives of global capitalism , the possibility of a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy seems more than the fantasy of overwrought imaginations, or the isolated act of a lone psychopathic gunmen
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