Post by Rob Caprio on Nov 20, 2023 20:53:43 GMT -5
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[Note: This was written in 2014 and I have never posted it anywhere before.]
The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) assassinated President John F. Kennedy (JFK) all by himself with no assistance from anyone else.
Even if this was correct, and of course it isn't, this doesn't mean that LHO was not acting at the behest of others. The evidence clearly shows that a conspiracy occurred in the murder of JFK.
This post will look at how the media helped to cover this truth up.
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Richard E. Sprague, House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) investigator and author of the book entitled “Taking Of America, 1-2-3", looked at the various media outlets in regard to their coverage of the assassination over time. He cites the CBS four-part series that was done with Walter Cronkite in 1967 as the main basis of his overview. The funny part is the WC defenders use this series to justify the official conclusion when in fact it was written to show conspiracy!!
NONE of the summary evidence equals the conclusion that the WC provided us with. A last-minute change to the script made even Cronkite shocked by the verdict of the WC being correct.
Sprague wrote this about the 1967 CBS Special on the JFK assassination.
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That series, while taking issue with some of the work of the Warren Commission and criticizing the Dallas police, the FBI and the Secret Service, nevertheless backed all of the basic Warren Commission conclusions.
Anyone watching the Cronkite series might have wondered why the basic evidence presented by CBS in an itemized format for each of several areas in the case, did not always seem to point to the conclusion reached at the end of each section. The conclusion always agreed with the Warren Commission's comparable conclusion. Some viewers may even have noticed Cronkite's double-take after reading through the basic evidence and then reading the phrase, "and the conclusion is!" It seemed as though he didn't believe the conclusion and hadn't seen it until he came to it in the script. (Richard E. Sprague, “The Taking Of America, 1-2-3", Chapter 9)
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This is what actually happened as Sprague had sources within CBS who told him the whole script was changed in the last week before the airing and kept from Cronkite and those involved in the program. However, time had not permitted changing all of the points of evidence, so in most cases they were unchanged and only the conclusion was changed. How did this happen? Who was responsible?
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The discussion with all of the CBS people always centered on evidence of conspiracy and the CBS-TV film footage taken at the assassination site. Bob Richter was the most knowledgeable of all the aforementioned people on the basic evidence and he was firmly convinced there was a conspiracy. Bernie Birnbaum was convinced that a new investigation was desirable, and his wife was convinced there had been a conspiracy. Dan Rather believed there was a conspiracy and so did Wes Wise.
CBS photographers Sandy Sanderson, Tom Craven, and Jim Underwood had taken movie-TV footages showing evidence of conspiracy. Craven's footage, for example, showed the assassin's get-away car driving away from the parking lot area behind the grassy knoll about one minute after the shots were fired. Sanderson filmed one of the assassins being arrested in front of the Depository building about 30 minutes after the shots. Most of this footage was either lost or locked up in the CBS archives vaults in New Jersey. (Ibid.)
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I would love to see Craven's footage that shows the getaway car leaving the scene, and Sanderson's film that shows one of the assassins being arrested.
Sprague continues.
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Wes Wise so strongly maintained his opinion about conspiracy that he broadcast appeals for new photographic evidence over the KRLD local TV shows. This was done against the orders of Eddie Barker. Wes became Mayor of Dallas, elected in 1971 and defeated the Dallas-established oligarchy. He actually received a new piece of photographic evidence based on his TV appeal from a Dallas citizen named Bothun, who had taken a picture of the grassy knoll a few moments after the shots.
The script for the Cronkite series was being edited and was going through its final preparation stages in May and early June. The author was in constant touch with Wise, Birnbaum and Richter during this period and was informed about the basic thrust of the script toward conspiracy and recommendations for a new investigation.
On June 14 Bob Richter invited the author to meet Midgely, Lister and Wallace at CBS in New York where an interview was being taped with Jim Garrison for use in the series. At that time Garrison, Richter and the author spent some time with the producer and his assistant discussing the evidence of conspiracy.
Finally, on June 20, just five days before the program was to go on the air, the author met with Richter and Dan Rather in the Washington, D.C. CBS studios. The script was reviewed by Richter and Rather in the author's presence. The gist of the conversation was that Rather and Richter agreed that the conclusions stating conspiracy had to be made even stronger than they were at that time. (Ibid.)
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So much for that as we all know what happened in the end. Nobody ever figured out who changed the show at the last moment. Even the Chairman of the Board, William C. Paley, son, Jeff Paley, tried to find out but came up empty.
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Correspondence with Cronkite and others determined that the decision to change the script, distort and hide CBS's own findings and back up the Warren Commission to the hilt came from Midgely and Lister. How much higher did the decision go? Richard Salant was head of the CBS News Division then and, of course, William C. Paley was (and still is) chairman of the board.
By an odd coincidence, in a sequel to the above CBS story, the author had an opportunity to learn a little more about Mr. Paley's knowledge. Jeff Paley, William Paley's son, returned to the United States from Paris in the winter of 1967-1968, where he had been writing news stories and a news column for L'Express and for the North American Newspaper Alliance, a group serving small papers in the United States.
Jeff had become convinced there was a conspiracy in the JFK case and came to interview Garrison and others and to do a story for French papers. (European papers and magazines always believed and still do believe in the JFK assassination conspiracy.) He met at length with Richter and the author and became quite disturbed at what CBS had done. He approached his father with the idea that CBS had been wrong in the Cronkite series and that something should be done to rectify the situation.
Bill Paley told his son that he knew nothing about the details of the programs or the work lying behind the conclusions. He said Midgely had been responsible for the entire production. He told Jeff that if he could show proof that the CBS conclusions were wrong and there had been a conspiracy, that he would fire Midgely and all the rest of the team and do the whole thing all over again under new management. (Ibid.)
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It should be noted that research has shown that William Paley had ties to the CIA and had cooperated with Operation Mockingbird for decades so he most likely was not telling his son the truth when he stated that he had no idea what happened.
Furthermore, CBS kept their films and photographs locked up and would delete anything that showed conspiracy.
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Since June 1967, CBS has remained editorially silent on the subject of the JFK assassination. The photographic evidence of conspiracy in their possession remains locked up and suppressed. The Craven sequence--film footage by the CBS photographer (who had been in the parade's camera car # 1) of a car driving out of the Elm Street extension (left-to right in front of the Texas School Book Depository) within 20 seconds of the assassination -- was seen by the author and Jones Harris in New York, but was cut out of the film where it appeared prior to the time the author and Richter began searching for it. There is little question that CBS is an accessory after the fact.
CBS edited out one other important piece of TV film. In November 1969, Walter Cronkite conducted a three-part interview with Lyndon B. Johnson at his ranch in Texas. The series was broadcast in the spring of 1970 and on the first program an announcement was made that portions of the taped interview had been deleted at Lyndon Johnson's request, "for reasons of national security. (Ibid.)
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What actually happened and what Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) had said six months earlier was made public due to a leak at CBS. The story appeared in newspapers all over the U.S. several days before the broadcast.
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Johnson told Cronkite that there had been a conspiracy in the assassination of President Kennedy, that Oswald was not a lone madman assassin, and that he, Johnson, had known it all along. Johnson reviewed the tapes a week or so before the program was to go on the air and then called up the CBS management, asking that his remarks be deleted.
Someone at CBS who was very disturbed by this called a member of the Committee to Investigate Assassinations and told him what had been deleted. This led to the story being printed in the newspapers. (Ibid.)
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LBJ would tell close confidants and the media similar things in the years before his death. It would seem that some of those with knowledge of what actually happened on November 22, 1963, suffered from a guilty conscious before their own deaths.
We see evidence of the cover-up at work in the media and the WC fostered this type of mentality instead of preventing it. They, like CBS, ignored the actual evidence in reaching their preconceived conclusion, thus, they are sunk yet again.
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[Note: This was written in 2014 and I have never posted it anywhere before.]
The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) assassinated President John F. Kennedy (JFK) all by himself with no assistance from anyone else.
Even if this was correct, and of course it isn't, this doesn't mean that LHO was not acting at the behest of others. The evidence clearly shows that a conspiracy occurred in the murder of JFK.
This post will look at how the media helped to cover this truth up.
******************************************************************
Richard E. Sprague, House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) investigator and author of the book entitled “Taking Of America, 1-2-3", looked at the various media outlets in regard to their coverage of the assassination over time. He cites the CBS four-part series that was done with Walter Cronkite in 1967 as the main basis of his overview. The funny part is the WC defenders use this series to justify the official conclusion when in fact it was written to show conspiracy!!
NONE of the summary evidence equals the conclusion that the WC provided us with. A last-minute change to the script made even Cronkite shocked by the verdict of the WC being correct.
Sprague wrote this about the 1967 CBS Special on the JFK assassination.
Quote on
That series, while taking issue with some of the work of the Warren Commission and criticizing the Dallas police, the FBI and the Secret Service, nevertheless backed all of the basic Warren Commission conclusions.
Anyone watching the Cronkite series might have wondered why the basic evidence presented by CBS in an itemized format for each of several areas in the case, did not always seem to point to the conclusion reached at the end of each section. The conclusion always agreed with the Warren Commission's comparable conclusion. Some viewers may even have noticed Cronkite's double-take after reading through the basic evidence and then reading the phrase, "and the conclusion is!" It seemed as though he didn't believe the conclusion and hadn't seen it until he came to it in the script. (Richard E. Sprague, “The Taking Of America, 1-2-3", Chapter 9)
ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ToA/
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This is what actually happened as Sprague had sources within CBS who told him the whole script was changed in the last week before the airing and kept from Cronkite and those involved in the program. However, time had not permitted changing all of the points of evidence, so in most cases they were unchanged and only the conclusion was changed. How did this happen? Who was responsible?
Quote on
The discussion with all of the CBS people always centered on evidence of conspiracy and the CBS-TV film footage taken at the assassination site. Bob Richter was the most knowledgeable of all the aforementioned people on the basic evidence and he was firmly convinced there was a conspiracy. Bernie Birnbaum was convinced that a new investigation was desirable, and his wife was convinced there had been a conspiracy. Dan Rather believed there was a conspiracy and so did Wes Wise.
CBS photographers Sandy Sanderson, Tom Craven, and Jim Underwood had taken movie-TV footages showing evidence of conspiracy. Craven's footage, for example, showed the assassin's get-away car driving away from the parking lot area behind the grassy knoll about one minute after the shots were fired. Sanderson filmed one of the assassins being arrested in front of the Depository building about 30 minutes after the shots. Most of this footage was either lost or locked up in the CBS archives vaults in New Jersey. (Ibid.)
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I would love to see Craven's footage that shows the getaway car leaving the scene, and Sanderson's film that shows one of the assassins being arrested.
Sprague continues.
Quote on
Wes Wise so strongly maintained his opinion about conspiracy that he broadcast appeals for new photographic evidence over the KRLD local TV shows. This was done against the orders of Eddie Barker. Wes became Mayor of Dallas, elected in 1971 and defeated the Dallas-established oligarchy. He actually received a new piece of photographic evidence based on his TV appeal from a Dallas citizen named Bothun, who had taken a picture of the grassy knoll a few moments after the shots.
The script for the Cronkite series was being edited and was going through its final preparation stages in May and early June. The author was in constant touch with Wise, Birnbaum and Richter during this period and was informed about the basic thrust of the script toward conspiracy and recommendations for a new investigation.
On June 14 Bob Richter invited the author to meet Midgely, Lister and Wallace at CBS in New York where an interview was being taped with Jim Garrison for use in the series. At that time Garrison, Richter and the author spent some time with the producer and his assistant discussing the evidence of conspiracy.
Finally, on June 20, just five days before the program was to go on the air, the author met with Richter and Dan Rather in the Washington, D.C. CBS studios. The script was reviewed by Richter and Rather in the author's presence. The gist of the conversation was that Rather and Richter agreed that the conclusions stating conspiracy had to be made even stronger than they were at that time. (Ibid.)
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So much for that as we all know what happened in the end. Nobody ever figured out who changed the show at the last moment. Even the Chairman of the Board, William C. Paley, son, Jeff Paley, tried to find out but came up empty.
Quote on
Correspondence with Cronkite and others determined that the decision to change the script, distort and hide CBS's own findings and back up the Warren Commission to the hilt came from Midgely and Lister. How much higher did the decision go? Richard Salant was head of the CBS News Division then and, of course, William C. Paley was (and still is) chairman of the board.
By an odd coincidence, in a sequel to the above CBS story, the author had an opportunity to learn a little more about Mr. Paley's knowledge. Jeff Paley, William Paley's son, returned to the United States from Paris in the winter of 1967-1968, where he had been writing news stories and a news column for L'Express and for the North American Newspaper Alliance, a group serving small papers in the United States.
Jeff had become convinced there was a conspiracy in the JFK case and came to interview Garrison and others and to do a story for French papers. (European papers and magazines always believed and still do believe in the JFK assassination conspiracy.) He met at length with Richter and the author and became quite disturbed at what CBS had done. He approached his father with the idea that CBS had been wrong in the Cronkite series and that something should be done to rectify the situation.
Bill Paley told his son that he knew nothing about the details of the programs or the work lying behind the conclusions. He said Midgely had been responsible for the entire production. He told Jeff that if he could show proof that the CBS conclusions were wrong and there had been a conspiracy, that he would fire Midgely and all the rest of the team and do the whole thing all over again under new management. (Ibid.)
Quote off
It should be noted that research has shown that William Paley had ties to the CIA and had cooperated with Operation Mockingbird for decades so he most likely was not telling his son the truth when he stated that he had no idea what happened.
Furthermore, CBS kept their films and photographs locked up and would delete anything that showed conspiracy.
Quote on
Since June 1967, CBS has remained editorially silent on the subject of the JFK assassination. The photographic evidence of conspiracy in their possession remains locked up and suppressed. The Craven sequence--film footage by the CBS photographer (who had been in the parade's camera car # 1) of a car driving out of the Elm Street extension (left-to right in front of the Texas School Book Depository) within 20 seconds of the assassination -- was seen by the author and Jones Harris in New York, but was cut out of the film where it appeared prior to the time the author and Richter began searching for it. There is little question that CBS is an accessory after the fact.
CBS edited out one other important piece of TV film. In November 1969, Walter Cronkite conducted a three-part interview with Lyndon B. Johnson at his ranch in Texas. The series was broadcast in the spring of 1970 and on the first program an announcement was made that portions of the taped interview had been deleted at Lyndon Johnson's request, "for reasons of national security. (Ibid.)
Quote off
What actually happened and what Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) had said six months earlier was made public due to a leak at CBS. The story appeared in newspapers all over the U.S. several days before the broadcast.
Quote on
Johnson told Cronkite that there had been a conspiracy in the assassination of President Kennedy, that Oswald was not a lone madman assassin, and that he, Johnson, had known it all along. Johnson reviewed the tapes a week or so before the program was to go on the air and then called up the CBS management, asking that his remarks be deleted.
Someone at CBS who was very disturbed by this called a member of the Committee to Investigate Assassinations and told him what had been deleted. This led to the story being printed in the newspapers. (Ibid.)
Quote off
LBJ would tell close confidants and the media similar things in the years before his death. It would seem that some of those with knowledge of what actually happened on November 22, 1963, suffered from a guilty conscious before their own deaths.
We see evidence of the cover-up at work in the media and the WC fostered this type of mentality instead of preventing it. They, like CBS, ignored the actual evidence in reaching their preconceived conclusion, thus, they are sunk yet again.