Internet sleuths have had several days now to pore over the 80,000 declassified JFK files that President Trump finally released to the public. While it’s great that the president is pushing for an unprecedented level of new government transparency, we shouldn’t get our hopes up for a major “bombshell” in the files.
Almost every revelation that’s been published thus far was already public information that’s been in many of the 40,000 books written about JFK.
If you’re hoping for a smoking gun document that says who the shooter on the grassy knoll was, you should brace yourself for disappointment.
The files are interesting as part of the historical record and we should all be glad that President Trump released them. We hope that this continues with the Epstein files, the UFO files, and many of the other documents that the government has classified and kept from the public view for so long.
But think about this: If the CIA really did kill John F. Kennedy, which was the prevailing theory, do you think they would leave any documents lying around that fully admitted to the crime years later? I have my doubts.
We’ll probably never have the full truth about what happened, but at least we now have some as much of the truth that’s left in the files that President Trump released.
As for all the various conspiracy theories, movies, and books about the Kennedy assassination, I’ve heard, seen, and read many of them. I love a good conspiracy theory! Conspiracy theories often turn out to be truer than the government/media narrative about every story imaginable.
I think that pandas are genetically modified freaks that China created to control bamboo forests. I think it’s plausible that the British royal family will have Meghan Markle run for president one day, in hopes that she will nullify the Declaration of Independence and put us all back under British control. I’m definitely skeptical that we went to the moon in 1969 in a contraption that looks like a bad tree fort designed by a mentally disabled child.
By the way, the Lunar Excursion Module itself was an inside joke from NASA making reference to JFK’s homosexual lover, Lem Billings. The Lunar Excursion Module. The “LEM.”
Anyway, I enjoy conspiracy theories as much as the next person (okay, probably more than most people), but even I don’t believe there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll. If you ever visit Dealey Plaza in Dallas in person, it will shock you how close Oswald was to JFK when he shot him in the back of the head.
Some historians have made the bizarre claim that there must have been a second shooter because Oswald was so far away from JFK and it would have been such a difficult shot. That’s just not true.
Thomas Matthew Crooks was 164 yards away from President Trump when he shot him in the ear last summer. Lee Harvey Oswald was just 88 yards from JFK when he shot him from the book depository. A mediocre shooter could hit a slow-moving target the size of a watermelon from that range 8 out of 10 times, even if he was using a cruddy Italian rifle like Oswald.
One new tidbit that piqued my interest from the JFK files was the fact that the Soviet leadership tried to warn Washington, DC, about the possibility of an assassination attempt in Dallas. Our supposed enemies in Russia also tried to warn the Bush administration before the 9/11 attacks, and the Obama administration before the Boston Marathon bombing. With that track record, maybe Washington should think about its constant hostility toward Russia.
That particular document seems to debunk the idea that the Soviets were as heavily involved in the JFK assassination as some think. If they were behind it, why try to warn us ahead of time about Oswald’s pending attack?
Even though I have my doubts, I’m still hopeful that there might be some kind of smoking gun in the documents. After all, why would former CIA Director Mike Pompeo have talked President Trump out of releasing the files nearly a decade ago if there was nothing in them?
Maybe the internet sleuths will be able to uncover something truly embarrassing for the CIA. We should know within the next few days.