Tucker goes over the history of the JFK assassination investigations, with some juicy tidbits from 2017.
Highlights include:
“Not long after Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald on camera in the basement of Dallas police headquarters, a lot of Americans started to have some questions about the Kennedy assassination. It was, you’d have to admit, a pretty extraordinary sequence of events. A lone gunman murders the President of the United States, and then, less that 48 hours later, that lone gunman is himself murdered by another lone gunman. What are the odds of that?”
“Many Americans did move on. At the time they had no idea how shoddy and corrupt the Warren Commission was. It would be nearly 50 years before the CIA admitted, under duress, that in fact it had withheld information from investigators about its relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald. But even then, at the time before that was known, the government’s explanation didn’t seem entirely plausible, and some people started asking obvious questions about it.”
“The term ‘conspiracy theory’ did not exist as a phrase in everyday American conversation before 1964. In 1964, the year the Warren Commission issued its report, the New York Times published five stories in which ‘conspiracy theory’ appeared.”
“In 1976, long forgotten, the House of Representatives impaneled a special committee to reinvestigate the JFK assassination . Their bipartisan conclusion? Jack Kennedy was almost certainly murdered as the result of a conspiracy. But the question is, a conspiracy by whom? Well, the obvious suspect would be the CIA. Why else would the agency withhold critical evidence from investigators? Is there a benign explanation for that?”
“In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act. That act mandated full disclosure of all documents by 2017, 54 years after JFK was killed. The last administration promised to comply fully with that law, But under intense pressure from CIA director Mike Pompeo withheld in the end thousands of pages of CIA documents. Today, this afternoon, the Biden administration did exactly the same thing.”
“No matter how you feel about or what you thought about the Kennedy assassination, pause to consider what this means. It means that within the US government, there are forces wholly beyond democratic control. These forces are more powerful than the elected officials that supposedly oversee them. These forces can affect election outcomes, they can even hide their complicity in the murder of an American President. In other words, they can do pretty much whatever they want.”
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