19-10-2015, 12:00 AM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:We will never be taken seriously unless we take ourselves seriously.
Hi Jim, nice to meet you. I agree with you completely on this point, and as a n00b, perhaps I can share my fresh experience in coming up to speed.
I've been doing "JFK research" for about a year now, and most of my work so far has been online. My problem has been, wading through all the disinformation that's posted in the cloud. For example, you mentioned the bit about Bush being in Dealey Plaza, and there's a perfect example.
As a n00b ("any" n00b), if I google on "Bush Dealey Plaza" the first hit I get is that picture. And then, I get one article after another that claims "Bush was in Dealey Plaza", and then on page two or three I finally start seeing some of the counter-claims saying it's a different guy.
The point being, that the fake story is above the real story, in the Google results. In other words, there's no organization of the information - there's no historical trail, nothing that will save me hours of research and tell me at a glance, "this claim has been debunked, and here's why", and then point me to the original evidence so I can see for myself.
Otherwise, what's a n00b to do? Look at the picture, and without any other knowledge you might be able to nod your head in agreement, "yep, that's Bush". And the result of that is, for the first year or two we have all these n00bs floating around saying "Bush was in Dealey plaza", and then those posts wind up in the Google search results under "Bush dealey plaza", and they end up pushing down the real stories even further!
There needs to be an authoritative site where everyone (n00bs included) can go to get an instant historical perspective on any given issue within the JFK assassination domain. Someone needs to be able to type in "Igor Vaganov" and get the whole story about how he was taken down to 10th and Patton and photographed there and so on... without having to do days of research to "maybe" get something approximating the real skinny.
This is work, right? We're talking about a whole heckuva lot of work. But, it's also a way of organizing the research community, and maybe saving a little bandwidth on some of the for-profit JFK sites.
What are the chances of building an information repository like that? And making it public and free of charge, so anyone and everyone can wade through the disinformation quickly and efficiently?